I feel like I have already lived 2 days since yesterday. Sounds weird, but really. I woke up 6.15am this morning so I could reach City Hall MRT at 7.30am. Met up with others and then went for the PlayMax dry run. It's held at St. Andrew's Cathedral. It's going to be on 12 and 13 June. I'm one of the group hosts. Does anyone want to go? Timothy Fellowship is going to do the 1pm slot, so if anyone wants to come, tell me. Age group: 10-20 years old. Visit http://www.playmax.sg for more details. I think it's going to be quite fun.

I reached home around 1pm and had to resist going near my bed. I only slept 4+ hours last night (this morning) because of Jean. I was sleeping over in her room and we congregated there at 1am. Jean was busy sorting out her school blazer for today and she kept complaining about it. She tried it on, something like a dry run. That wasn't all. Next, she started rehearsing her speech for the Raffles Model United Nations conference. It's some sort of imitation UN meeting that is being held in RI or RJC, where a few people from a few schools have to act like delegates and all that, and discuss issues related to the countries they are assigned to. It goes on for weeks. Jean sat on her bed, maintained good eye contact with me, and chanted on and on about Denmark's refugee immigration issues and pirates roaming around the sea. I was suddenly reminded about the SS chapter: Deterrence and Diplomacy. Then after her long speech, she went on to singing. Yes, really. She started trying to teach me new songs. So that's why I couldn't sleep much this morning. A fashion show, followed by a bedtime story, then a lullaby.

By the time I reached home, I could just close my eyes and sleep anywhere. But I had to resist the temptation of going to dream land, because if I succumbed to it, I would just sleep all the way till Sunday morning. I completed my daily dosage of violin practice, then spent the rest of the time slacking online and banging the piano before setting off for fellowship.

My grandparents decided to have dinner out today since all of us didn't have to stay back in church tonight. It was some sort of pre-birthday dinner for my grandmother because she had a free birthday meal and decided to ask everyone out. There's still part 2 next week. Jean started asking my grandparents about how the stock market was doing. She gets to buy and sell shares, fake, but in real time, for math lessons. Soon everyone was talking about how Capitland, SingTel, SIA etc were doing. Once in a while, someone would urgently say, "EH! NO, No, _(SIA)____ CANNOT. Now it's really quite low.. will lose money!" and I think I was the most lost. My grandmother noticed my lost state and started giving me a long lecture on the stock market, how the whole thing worked and how people play invest in the stock market. She is against the word "play", because "invest" seems more exclusive. I think she is a great stock market advisor, because she worked in the bank for a long time. She started ranting about how she had to calculate the values of shares every day, because there were no computers to do all that then. No wonder her math is so good. But she stressed this over and over again: do NOT invest in the stock market unless you have excess money you don't need. I guess I'll take a long time to reach the level when I can play in the stock market, then. Meanwhile my grandfather gave Jean a 1 to 1 lecture on which shares to buy, which companies did better for short term and long term investments. In other words, mine was some type of crash course on the Introduction to the Stock Market while Jean's was Intermediate Stock Marketing. I think I leant quite a lot. My parents sat there and amused themselves by listening to us getting educated by their parents. There's this funny quote, something like, grandchildren and grandparents are the best of friends, because they have a common enemy.